Yamaha Update Motif With New XF Models

Lots and lots of memory 02/08/10

Motif XF now in black

Buying Choices

So the cat is out of the bag, the new Yamaha models are announced today, with a significant updgrade to their flagship synthesizer workstations. The new range being the XF and they are in black too, a little cosmetic change for those who are tiring of the silver finish.The Big news about the Motif XF adds a massive amount of additional ROM bringing the total available Wave ROM to 741MB. The Inspiration In A Flash tag also signifies that there is indeed more on board RAM available, with 128MB of built-in RAM, but more interestingly, there is the possibility to install up to 2GB of Flash RAM for fast and power-cycle resistant storage.

This makes the Motif XF a viable live workstation with plenty of room for an entire live set or two and easy recall of samples voices and suchlike.

For the arpeggiator addict the largess of preset patterns has been increased to well over a thousand covering your basic synth-type stuff to sophisticated guitar and drum patterns.

There are numerous other enhancents and changes based on feedback from users of previous Motif models.

Up to 2GB of optional Flash Wave memory. Finally it is possible to save your samples to the internal memory of your synth so they are always there when you turn it on.

A sophisticated 8-element synth architecture with XSpanded articulation and 18 different filter types let you shape your sound anyway you want, and 8 front panel knobs and sliders make it easy to do - even in real time.